Frans Hals in America
Frans Hals was one of the most gifted masters of Dutch seventeenth-century art. This book explores the narrative of Hals in America, from his rediscovery by Gilded Age collectors to the thorny issues of attribution and the impact of a dynamic art market over a century.
Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre
Drawing on 35 years of experience, this book explores a Delhi theatre group’s practice within the frame of international activist theatre movements. It identifies theatre as a force for changing society, examining a variety of forms from proscenium to street theatre.
What happens after genocide? Drawing on newly discovered archives, this groundbreaking collection explores the aftermath of the Holocaust and other atrocities through perpetrator trials, victim commemoration, Jewish renewal, and cultural memory in literature and film.
A first-hand perspective on Traditional Indigenous Medicine and ayahuasca, based on teachings from the Asháninka, Mazatec, Cocama, & Navajo. This book explores spirituality and healing past traumas, while analyzing the psychedelic world’s potential, contradictions, and dangers.
What Literature Teaches in Times of Crisis
The Covid pandemic offers a new lens for old stories. This book explores how collective trauma deepens our understanding of authors like Joyce, Kafka, and Chekhov, revealing the enduring psychological power of classic literature.
Guide to Early Childhood Education
This textbook represents a resource for educationalists working in the field of Early Childhood Education. Its three main parts offer insights, early learning ideas, classroom environmental changes and pertinent information and internet resources to help guide successful learning
This book explores borders as socio-political constructs and the formation of identity. A series of articles interrogates the border as a limitation where spatial borders become mental ones, and examines individualism as a paradoxical prison cell and fortress.
While famous for ‘O Holy Night’, composer Adolphe-Charles Adam’s greatest achievement was ballet. His Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism. This book examines his 14 works for the dance, charting the efflorescence of the Romantic ballet in Paris from 1830-1860.
Figures like Germaine Tillion, the Aubracs, and Marc Bloch made the radical decision to resist. This collection of essays addresses how resisters made sense of their world, and how later generations have engaged with the complex legacy of the Resistance.
Identity Mediations in Latin American Cinema and Beyond
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism
This book is an immanent critique of influential theorist Karen Barad. It explores the consistency and application of her theory of “agential realism,” which connects feminist theory, philosophy, and science through concepts like “intra-action,” derived from quantum physics.
Self-Action Leadership (Volume II)
Self-Action Leadership provides the first comprehensive, secular manual for personal leadership and character education. Rooted in 30 years of extensive research, it introduces an original model that executives, scholars, and teachers alike can universally utilize.
The Young Dante
This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.
Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice
This book explores peace as a matter of justice. It argues that a just peace requires citizens capable of moral reasoning and judgment. It offers a framework to develop these capacities, empowering us to resist injustice and realize peace on all levels of society.
The Roots of Visual Depiction in Art
Why ancient humans first began to represent animals is a question that has led to a bewildering number of theories since cave art was discovered. This work provides an answer, demonstrating the intriguing journey of the development of visual imagery in the human brain.
This book explores the complexity of physical and social systems, covering science policy, networks, and education. It argues that academies uniting top scholars are the best advocates for managing ideas to benefit society, and describes their vital current tasks.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
Adolphe Adam is known for ‘O Holy Night’, but his legacy is much more. His ballet Giselle is the quintessence of Romanticism, while his opera Le Postillon de Lonjumeau is still played worldwide. This study considers the composer’s life, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets.
This compilation of 21 case studies from leading researchers explores communication about sex in relationships. It provides tangible skills to improve relationships, encourage safer sex, and navigate difficult topics like media, health, and culture.
Democracy and Economy
This history of democracy uses modern economics and political sciences to explain why the system was created and how it evolves. It analyses why democracy requires strong economic structures, with case studies from Ancient Greece to the EU.
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